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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ome" data-source="post: 259864" data-attributes="member: 2"><h2>95. Tina Belcher (Bob's Burgers)</h2>[ATTACH=full]25482[/ATTACH]Voiced by Dan MintzTina Belcher was an instant phenomenon when Bob's Burgers came to FOX in 2011. Case in point: There have been plenty of Bob and Linda couple costumes during Halloweens since, a decent amount of Louises with her unmistakable pink bunny ear hat, but it's costumes of Tina, the eighth grade horse girl voiced by comedian Dan Mintz who writes erotic fiction and loves boys' butts, that feel most enduring. Not unlike other characters on this list, she transcends her show: She's a meme, a twerking reaction GIF, a long "uunnnggghhhh" noise, a relatable mood board. Even if you haven't seen the show, you almost certainly haven't escaped the reach of Tina Belcher's awkward and horny budding teenage mind. -- LB<h2>94. Maeve (Westworld)</h2>[ATTACH=full]25483[/ATTACH]Played by Thandie NewtonLook, Westworld is by no means a perfect show. HBO's big sci-fi swing is overstuffed, intentionally confusing, and often incredibly corny. But if there's one thing that keeps us coming back, it's Thandie Newton's inspired performance as Maeve. While the series may have made Evan Rachel Wood's host Dolores its prophet, it also made her dull, what with her serious platitudes about the end of the world. Newton allowed Maeve to actually have fun with her burgeoning consciousness, sometimes in spite of the script. She begins as a cheeky brothel owner, but morphs into a warrior with the ability to manipulate humans and hosts alike with her savvy and tuned-up source code. Even as she's delightfully bringing everyone around her to their knees, Newton still lets her tragic longing for her lost daughter seep through. While the writers keep failing Maeve as the series goes on, locking her in the same tired motivations, Newton always makes her worth watching. -- EZ<h2>93. Dylan Maxwell (American Vandal)</h2>[ATTACH=full]25484[/ATTACH]Played by Jimmy TatroIt's a feat of brilliance how immediately charming the hapless, oafish Dylan Maxwell, classic high school dudebro, is from his very first appearance on the first season of Netflix's mockumentary series about a school beset by an investigation into who "did the dicks," drawing a phallus on every single car in the teachers' parking lot. Tatro, who had already carved out a Dylan Maxwell-y niche making comedy prank videos on YouTube with his boys before his big break, was by far the perfect choice for the character, lobbing half-baked conspiracy theories at fellow student and documentarian Peter Maldonado (Tyler Alvarez). Initially the first and only suspect, Dylan was eventually revealed to be an unwitting scapegoat for a smarter, more dastardly perpetrator. But it's Dylan who provides some of the biggest laughs and most outrageous dialogue -- the padded toilet seat bit is too obscene for print but if you know, you know -- and it's Dylan who brings such bewildered pathos to the season's unexpectedly sobering finale. -- ES<h2>92. Jack Bauer (24)</h2>[ATTACH=full]25485[/ATTACH]Played by Kiefer SutherlandAs the fictional Counter Terrorism Unit's busiest agent, Jack Bauer was in near-constant motion -- perpetually racing off to a new location to prevent an assassination, defuse a nuclear football, or kick a heroin addiction he developed while working undercover -- but Kiefer Sutherland brought a surprising stillness to the role that transformed his career. The show's pleasingly ludicrous pacing, frequently loathsome Bush-era politics, and absurdly tense cougar cameos were anchored by a gravelly voiced, fully committed lead performance that helped elevate the serialized tick-tock mayhem beyond mere Tom Clancy paranoia porn. While Dennis Haysbert's President David Palmer, Gregory Itzin's President Charles Logan, and Jean Smart's First Lady Martha Logan did admirable work selling the political backstabbing of their respective seasons, 24 was always the Bauer Hour, and, for better or worse, the character represents all the messy contradictions and violent impulses of the modern American action hero. -- DJ<h2>91. Valerie Cherish (The Comeback)</h2>[ATTACH=full]25486[/ATTACH]Played by Lisa KudrowLisa Kudrow will probably always be best-known as Phoebe from Friends, but her greatest creation is Valerie Cherish, a brilliant work of meta comedy. Valerie, not unlike Lisa Kudrow herself, was a '90s sitcom star, but that's where the two diverge. The series, created by Kudrow and Sex and the City's Michael Patrick King, operates on the conceit that everything the audiences is seeing is the raw footage being shot by the team behind a reality show about Valerie's "comeback," a role on Room and Bored, a wannabe Friends-type sitcom. To watch The Comeback is to suffer along with Valerie as she endures humiliation after humiliation, but Kudrow's cheery mugging for the camera persists through gritted teeth. Valerie Cherish is an exercise in exquisite agony. -- EZ</blockquote>

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